Best Quotes Around the World

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you’d look at the early Disney work, then ‚Bugs Bunny,‘ ‚Road Runner‘ and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to ‚Rocky and Bullwinkle,‘ you’d see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

They say miracles are past.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‚Radio Gaga.‘

Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I don’t care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Consequences are unpitying.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. ‚The Lord of the Rings‘ is intensely… landscaped. But ‚Discworld‘ is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.

Some guys look better as they get older.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

I was becoming post-ideological.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The part of uranium that’s fissile – when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two – is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that – of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.